Photo planning

 Before I go out to take photos, I plan what exactly I am going to take photos of. It's much better to be organized and plan ahead, rather than wait until the last minute, just to be scrambling around for what photos I need to take pictures of, just to end up not taking the pictures I actually need.

Depth of field and photography techniques

Previously I had learned about depth of field and photography techniques. Now I plan on demonstrating a few for pictures I will use for my magazine.  I plan on mostly using the bird's eye view and the worm's eye view for taking pictures of various dishes, and foreground depth of field to take pictures of important people in my magazine.

An example of some photos I'm going to take with he set of skills in photography I have learned:

Why composition, cropping, and storage are important when dealing with pictures

-Composition-

Good composition is important when trying to focus on a certain element. You don't want to take a picture of something, just for someone to look at it and be completely distracted by a random object in the background. An example of a good picture having good composition is that the viewer is immediately noticing your main focus of the photo, and that this focus point stands out a lot more than other objects in the picture.

-Cropping-

Cropping can be very helpful to have good composition. By simply cropping an image, you can make any object in the image become the main focus. So if you ever intend to take a picture of something, and t ends up having a distracting element, by simply cropping that problem is completely resolved.

-Storage-

This is extremely crucial when taking pictures. A typical photographer takes a lot of pictures when they cover an event, so they would have to have enough storage to keep all those pictures, otherwise all their work would be lost.

A picture that I took while practicing.

Drafts for my Creative Critical Reflection

I was first exposed to a creative critical reflection, or in other words, a CCR. A CCR is basically a reflection of my experiences after writing my magazine. It consists of answers to 4 questions. Here are my drafts so far:

(Ps: these are drafts and they might change later after finishing my magazine.)

How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

I still don't have a complete answer to that, but I think it uses conventions by applying different rules in layout like margins and spacing. It represents social issues by shedding light on foreign culture and really tributing to it by educating others on it.

How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text? As I said before, the purpose of my magazine is to educate others on foreign culture, so maybe that's how it could be engaging with my audience. As for how it would be distributed as a real media text, I could really try publishing it and not keeping at as "just a plain high school assignment"

How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

I learned to organize my time more, and I'm more productive 

How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?

I used studio works to create my magazine.

Why are headlines important?

I learned about the purpose of headlines. Headlines are supposed to be short and easy to read, but they also need to summarize the article in a way that a reader gets an idea of the event presented, but also has a hook effect that makes the reader want to know more. An example for the image shown would be "The slap heard 'round the world", because this specific event really had a booming effect in all of media, and it involves a person slapping another.

How to write a caption and why captions are important

I learned about captions. Captions are what put context to an image and explain and expand on what is going on in the picture. Without the caption (assuming that the event in the picture shown wasn't too famous), how would you know who is that slapping another person? How would you know what actually happened that caused this to unfold? That is why captions are important. I found out that there were basic captions, which consisted of just the answers questions who, what, when, and where, and I learned about more complex ones that include quotes, are a lot longer, and while the first sentence is in present tense. I also got to get some practice in!

How to prepare for an interview

Before doing my interview to actually get started on my rough draft for my copy, i had to prepare for what i was going to ask the person(s) I was going to interview. I had to include both open-ended questions, and short answered questions both related to my topic.

Here are a few examples of some questions I might ask: